Sea-shroom

For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, see Sea-Shroom.

Sea-shroom
Sea-shrooms are aquatic plants that shoot short ranged spores.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	0
Recharge	Slow Fast (Java version)
Damage	Normal
Toughness	Normal
Range	Short
In-game statistics
Planted on	Pool
Unlocked	After beating Level 3-10
Sleeps during the day
Sea-shroom has never seen the sea. It's in his name, he's heard loads about it, but he's just never found the time. One day, though, it'll go down.

Sea-shroom is a mushroom plant that appears in Plants vs. Zombies. He is the first plant unlocked in the Fog stage, and the 25th plant unlocked overall.

He performs almost identically to Puff-shroom, as he costs 0 sun and can shoot spores at zombies three tiles ahead of where he is planted, but has a slower recharge rate and can only be planted on water tiles in the Pool and Fog levels.

Origins

He appears to be inspired by the aquatic gilled mushroom (Psathyrella aquatica), a real life species of fungus from Oregon that represents the first ever report of a gilled basidiomycete fruiting underwater.

His name is a combination of the word "sea," referring to how he can only be planted on water tiles, and the suffix "-shroom," referring to how he is based on a mushroom.

Suburban Almanac entry

Sea-shroom
Sea-shrooms are aquatic plants that shoot short ranged spores. Damage: normal Range: short Must be planted in water Sleeps during the day Sea-shroom has never seen the sea. It's in his name, he's heard loads about it, but he's just never found the time. One day, though, it'll go down. Cost: 0 Recharge: slow

Strategies

Due to him being highly similar with Puff-shroom, Sea-shroom shares a role with Puff-shroom as a "cannon fodder," a highly disposable plant meant to be placed and eaten in great numbers. Sea-shroom's performance in this role however is much more limited, as the plant has a slow recharge rate and cannot be planted on land. Furthermore, the lack of dangerous zombies on pool lanes reduces the necessity to use Sea-shroom as a makeshift wall; on the other hand, this also means that Sea-shroom's limited firepower output can remain useful for a longer period of time compared to Puff-shroom's.

While Imitater can be used to remedy Sea-shroom's recharge problem, this is not recommended since this deprives the player of a cooldown reduction for potentially more useful plants. However, Sea-shroom can also be used to trick Dolphin Rider Zombie into jumping early and losing its dolphin in the process.

It is not advised to use Coffee Bean on this in any Pool levels. Instead, use Lily Pad and a stronger plant.

Related achievements

	Good Morning Complete a daytime level by planting mushrooms and Coffee Beans only.

	Morticulturalist Collect all 49 plants.

	Book Learner Fill out the Suburban Almanac.

Gallery

HD Sea-shroom

Sea-shroom seed packet in the iPad version

Sea-shroom seed packet in the iOS and Android versions

Sea-shroom seed packet in PC version

Imitater Sea-shroom seed packet in the PC version

DS Sea-shroom

A left-facing Sea-shroom in Zen Garden (Note the mycelium)

Sleeping Sea-shroom

Imitater Sea-shroom

Imitater sleeping Sea-shroom

Fog with Sea-shrooms, Lily Pads and other mushrooms

Online Almanac entry (note that he's on land)

Sea-shroom in Mushroom Garden

Earlier design for Sea-shroom

Suburban Almanac entry

A sleeping small Sea-shroom in Zen Garden

A sleeping medium-sized Sea-shroom in Zen Garden

Idle animation

Sleeping animation

In other languages

Language	Name	Description
English	Sea-shroom
Simplified Chinese	水兵菇
Traditional Chinese	水兵菇
French	Champi-mer
German	Meerpilz
Italian	Fungo di mare
Japanese	シーシュルーム
Spanish	Marseta

Trivia

• He seems to have approximately the same height as a Puff-shroom. However, he can be hit by Peashooter Zombies' and Gatling Pea Zombies' peas, while they just pass over Puff-shroom.
  • This is because the bodies of the Peashooter Zombies and Gatling Pea Zombies are partially in the water, which means their heads are lower on the surface on the water than on ground.
    • However, they cannot hit Puff-shrooms on Lily Pads.
      • This is because the Lily Pad, and thus the Puff-Shroom on top of it, are on the surface of the water rather than partially submerged like Sea-Shroom.
• In the online Almanac entry, he is floating over the grass even though he is aquatic. The same goes for all the other aquatic plants.
• When placed in the Aquarium Garden, his mycelium are visible, and they resemble tentacles.
  • In certain versions, such as the iOS version, this is not the case, and his roots are still somehow covered.
  • He is awake here as well as the mushroom garden. This can allow you to place the other 8 mushrooms in the aquatic garden.
• In the Game of the Year version, his body can be purple sometimes.
• He and Tangle Kelp cannot be protected by Pumpkins. This is due to the fact that he does not have any parts that allow Pumpkins to be planted on, unlike Cattails.
• He is the only plant in the Almanac to be in the Night Pool setting.
• He is the only aquatic plant and as well as the only Fog-obtained plant that does not reappear in Plants vs. Zombies 2 nor its Chinese version.
• He is nicknamed "小水" (lit. "little water") in Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West.

See also

• Puff-shroom
• Spore